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THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL 
BY THE STATE OF KANSAS 






PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE AND IN 
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OF THE UNITED STATES UPON THE 
ACCEPTANCE OF THE STATUE OF 
GEORGE WASHINGTON GLICK FROM 
THE STATE OF KANSAS 



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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 30, SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS 

Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick sixteen thou- 
sand five hundred copies, of which five thousand shall be for the use of the 
Senate, ten thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and the 
remaining one thousand five hundred shall be for use and distribution by the 
Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Kansas. The 
Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared 
for the Pubiic Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said statue to 
accompany the proceedings. 

Passed the Senate August 25, 19 14. 

Passed the House of Representatives March 2, 1915. 



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OCT 7 1S15 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in the Senate 7-28 

Letter of presentation from the governor of Kansas, Hon. George 

H. Hodges 8 

Cablegram from Hon. Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma 9 

Telegram from Hon. George A. Neeley, of Kansas 9 

Telegram from Hon. B. P. Waggener, of Atchison, Kans 10 

Addresses by — 

Mr. William H. Thompson, of Kansas n 

Statement by employees of the Bureau of Pensions 18 

Mr. Joseph L. Bristow, of Kansas 21 

Mr. William J. Stone, of Missouri 23 

Mr. James A. Reed, of Missouri 25 

Mr. Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado 26 

Proceedings in the House 31-56 

Addresses by — 

Mr. Philip P. Campbell, of Kansas ^3 

Mr. Joseph Taggart, of Kansas 37 

Mr. Victor Murdock, of Kansas 46 

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THE SCULPTOR 

Charles Henry Niehaus 

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 24, 1855. In early 
life followed wood engraving, stonecutting, and carving in 
marble. Studied art in the McMicken School of Design, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the Royal Academy of Munich, 
receiving conspicuous awards in both institutions. Lived 
for some time in Rome. Is a member of the Council of the 
National Sculpture Society, of the Architectural League of 
America, the National Arts Club, the Players Club, and 
fellow of L'Associazione della Artistica Internazionale di 
Roma. Since 1885 he has resided in the city of New York. 
Among his works are statues of Hooper and Davenport, 
statehouse, Connecticut; Astor historical doors, Old Trinity, 
New York; carved- wood tympanums, Library of Congress; 
statues of Moses and Gibbon, Library of Congress; Hahne- 
mann Memorial, Washington, D. C. ; statues of Lincoln 
and Farragut, Muskegon, Mich.; statues of Garfield, 
Chandler, Allen, Morton, Ingalls, and Glick, Statuary Hall, 
United States Capitol ; and a portrait bust of Daniel Tomp- 
kins, in the gallery of the United States Senate. 

Statue of James A. Garfield Statuary Hall. 

Statue of Oliver P. Morton Statuary Hall. 

Statue of John J. Ingalls Statuary Hall. 

Statue of William Allen Statuary Hall. 

Statue of Zachariah Chandler Statuary Hall. 

Statue of George Washington Glick Statuary Hall. 

Portrait Bust of Daniel Tompkins Senate gallery. 

(Extract from Works of Art in the United States Capitol Building, S. Doc. 
No. 169, 63d Cong., 1st sess.) 

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PROCEEDINGS IN THE 

SENATE OF 

THE UNITED STATES 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1914 

Mr. Thompson. I desire to offer a resolution, and I should 
like to have unanimous consent for its immediate adoption. 

Mr. President, there is being placed in Statuary Hall to-day 
the statue of George Washington Geick. Under the law 
each State is entitled to place two statues of its distin- 
guished men or women in that famous Hall. About 10 
years ago Kansas selected from her citizens as one of the 
recipients of this honor John James Ingalls, who was for- 
merly a celebrated Member of this body. About one year ago 
Kansas chose another of her citizens, George Washington 
Geick, the only Democratic governor the State ever had until 
the present administration, to receive the same high honor. 

As everyone knows, Senator Ingalls was an uncompro- 
mising Republican. As is equally well known, Gov. Geick 
was an uncompromising Democrat. These men lived and 
died in the same town, Atchison, Kans., and are buried in 
the same cemetery. It is therefore very fitting that the 
statues of these eminent sons of Kansas, representing, re- 
spectively, two branches of political thought and the two 
great political parties of this country, should stand side by 
side in the Hall of Fame. 

A prominent place immediately at the right of the entrance 
leading from Statuary Hall to the House of Representatives 
has been selected for the statue of Gov. Geick. A place 
equally important has been selected for the statue of Senator 
Ingalls, immediately at the left of the same entrance. 

Mr. President, I offer the following resolution and ask for 
its immediate consideration. 

The resolution (S. Res. 402) was read, considered by unani- 
mous consent, and agreed to, as follows: 

Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Glick, to-day 
erected in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Sat- 
urday, July 18, 1914, after the conclusion of the routine morning business. 

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Statue of George Washington Glick 



SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1914 

The President pro tempore. The regular order will be 
the exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance 
of the statue of George Washington Glick from the State 
of Kansas. 

Mr. Thompson. Mr. President, I present a letter from the 
governor of Kansas and ask that it may be read. 

The President pro tempore. In the absence of objection, 
the Secretary will read as requested. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

State of Kansas, 

Topeka, June 2Q, IQ14. 
To the Senate and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. 

Gentlemen: Among the many distinguished Kansans who have patrioti- 
cally devoted their lives to the service of the State, helped make its splendid 
history, promoted its material growth and prosperity, and marched in the 
forefront of the van of spiritual and social progress, there is no man who ranks 
higher than its one-time governor, the late George W. Glick. 

Grateful for his eminent services and proud of his history and attainments 
in behalf of the State, the legislature, at its regular session of 1913, adopted a 
concurrent resolution and made an appropriation for the purchase of a suitable 
statue, as a tribute to his memory, to be placed in Statuary Hall, where the 
Nation has granted to his people the privilege of placing it. This rare privilege 
is gratefully accepted by the State of Kansas, and the statue, done in imper- 
ishable marble, is now ready for acceptance by the Government; and, in be- 
half of the Legislature of Kansas and of the people I represent, I here avail 
myself of the honor and pleasure of presenting it to the people of the United 
States and their Representatives in Congress assembled. 
Respectfully, yours, 

George H. Hodges, Governor. 

Mr. Thompson. Mr. President, I submit a concurrent 
resolution, and ask that it may be read and considered at 
this time. 

The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas 
introduces a concurrent resolution, which the Secretary will 
read. 

The Secretary read the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
28), as follows: 

Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That the 
statue of George Washington Glick, presented by the State of Kansas to 
be placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, 
and that the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the contribution 



Proceedings in the Senate 



of the statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished 
civic services. 

Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Kansas. 

The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider 
the concurrent resolution. 

Mr. Thompson. I present a communication from Hon. 
Robert L,. Owen, senior Senator from the State of Okla- 
homa, and ask that it may be read by the Secretary. 

The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas 
presents a communication, which he asks may be read by 
the Secretary. Unless there is objection, that will be the 
order. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

[Cablegram.] 

July iS, 1914. 
Hon. William H. Thompson, 

United States Senate, Washington, D. C: 

I greatly regret my inability to be with you to-day. I especially desire to 
pay my great respect for Gov. Glick in person. He was an honor to the great 
State of Kansas. His upright, useful life, his great integrity, and his patriotic 
devotion to the public interest will always remain a model and an inspiration 
to the youth of Kansas and our whole country. May his splendid example 
be forever perpetuated by the noble monument which you to-day erect in 
the National Capitol. 

My sympathy and good wishes are with you. Extremely sorry I am pre- 
vented being present. 

Robert L. Owen. 

Mr. Thompson. I also present a telegram from Represent- 
ative George A. Neeley, of the seventh district of Kansas, 
which I ask may be read. 

The President pro tempore. The communication will be 
read, unless there is objection. The Chair hears none, and 
the Secretary will read. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

[Telegram.] 

Hutchinson, Kans., July 18, 1914. 
Senator W. H. Thompson, Washington , D. C: 

Matters over which I have no control deprive me of the pleasure of being 
present at the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the statue to 
the memory of the late Gov. George W. Glick. Time has only tended to 



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magnify the splendid qualities that made him the foremost Kansan of his 
day, and it is indeed a happy day for the people of our State, irrespective of 
party, that this remembrance of his life, service, and activities is to be thus 
recognized. 

George A. Neeley. 

Mr. Thompson. I also present and ask to have read a 
telegram just received from Hon. B. P. Waggener, of Atchi- 
son, Kans. 

The President pro tempore. In the absence of objection, 
the Secretary will read as requested. 

The Secretary read as follows : 

[Telegram.] 

Atchison, Kans., July 18, 1914. 
Hon. W. H. Thompson, 

United States Senate, Washington, D. C: 
As member of legislature for many years and as chief executive of Kansas, 
George W. Glick accomplished more for State than any of her public men. 
While' he was not a brilliant orator he was a constructive statesman, and 
Kansas honors herself by perpetuating his memory. 

B. P. Waggener. 



ADDRESS OF MR. THOMPSON 
Mr. President, the statutes of the United States provide: 

The President is authorized to invite all the States to provide and furnish 
statues in marble or bronze not exceeding two in number for each State of 
deceased persons who have been citizens thereof and illustrious for their 
historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services, such as each 
State may deem to be worthy of this national commemoration, and when so 
furnished the same shall be placed in the old Hall of the House of Representa- 
tives in the Capitol of the United States, which is set apart, or so much thereof 
as may be necessary, as a national statuary hall for the purpose herein indi- 
cated. 

This proceeding, therefore, involves two propositions: 
First, the presentation by the State of Kansas to the United 
States of a marble statue of the late George Washington 
Guck; and, second, the formal acceptance of that statue 
by the Congress of the United States. 

Sir William Jones, the noted English linguist and jurist, 
furnished to the literature of the world the following beautiful 
sentiment in verse: 

What constitutes a State? 
Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, 

Thick wall or moated gate ; 
Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; 

Not bays and broad-armed ports 
Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; 

Not starred and spangled courts 
Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 

No! Men, high-minded men, 
With powers as far above dull brutes endued 

In forest, brake, or den, 
As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, 

Men who their duties know, 
But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, 

Prevent the long-aimed blow, 
And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. 

These constitute a State, 
And sovereign law, that State's collected will, 

O'er thrones and globes elate, 
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 



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Sumner said: "The. true grandeur of nations is in those 
qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." 

The causes which shape the fortunes of individuals and the 
destinies of nations are substantially the same. That nation 
is the greatest which produces the most noble men and 
faithful women. It has frequently been demonstrated in 
battle that success does not depend so much upon the number 
of men and guns as it does upon the character of the men 
behind the guns. The principal elements of success in life 
consist in innate capacity and pronounced determination to 
excel. Where either is wanting, failure is almost certain. 
It is therefore proper on occasions like the present to make 
a study of successful lives, to serve both as a source of infor- 
mation and as a stimulus and encouragement to those who 
have the capacity to emulate their example. Longfellow 
furnishes an important lesson in this connection in his expres- 
sion, " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, 
while we judge others by what they have already done." 

George Washington Glick, the ninth governor of Kan- 
sas, was born at Greencastle, Fairfield County, Ohio, July 4, 
1827. His great-grandfather, Philip Glick, a Revolutionary 
soldier, was one of five brothers who came to Pennsylvania 
from Germany. His grandfather, George Glick, served in 
the War of 181 2, as did also his mother's father, Capt. George 
Sanders. Gov. Glick's father, Isaac Glick, was a man of 
influence in the community where he lived, who took an 
active interest in State and local politics, and held many posi- 
tions of public trust. His mother, Mary Sanders, was of 
Scotch parentage, and a woman of marked and lovable char- 
acter. Both parents lived to a good old age. 

Gov. Glick was reared on his father's farm near Fremont, 
Ohio, and there acquired the habits of industry, economy, 
and self-reliance that have made his later life so successful. 
At the age of 2 1 he entered the office of Buckland & Hayes 
as a law student, and was admitted to the bar two years later 
at Cincinnati by the supreme court. Rutherford B. Hayes, 
one of the members of this firm, afterwards became Presi- 
dent of the United States. Gov. Glick began the practice 



Address of Mr. Thompson 13 

at Fremont and soon won an enviable reputation as a hard- 
working and faithful lawyer. He fully sustained this repu- 
tation after coming to Kansas. Whatever else may be said 
of the legal fraternity, it can not be successfully denied that 
members of the bar have been more prominent in public 
affairs than any other class of citizens. Gov. Guck was a 
natural leader of men and consequently began early in life 
to take a hand in politics. When but 31 years of age he was 
nominated for Congress by the Democracy of his district in 
Ohio, but declined to accept the nomination. The same 
year he was nominated for State senator and made the race 
against Gen. R. P. Buckland, his former law preceptor. He 
was defeated, but ran 1,750 votes ahead of his ticket. 

Locating at Atchison in the spring of 1859, about the same 
time that Senator Ingalls also located there, he formed a 
partnership with Hon. Alfred G. Otis, who afterwards be- 
came a prominent judge of the State, which partnership 
lasted until 1874, when an affection of the throat compelled 
him to relinquish the active practice of the law. This firm soon 
became one of the best law firms in the State. Hon. Balie 
P. Waggener, of Atchison, the present general attorney for 
the Missouri Pacific Railway Co., and one of the most promi- 
nent Democrats of Kansas, and whose sixty-seventh birth- 
day is being celebrated to-day, read law in this office when 
he was a young man and was admitted to the bar from this 
firm. Mr. Waggener is also the author of the resolution for 
the presentation of the Guck statue to the Nation, which as 
State senator he introduced in the last legislature. Gov. 
Guck soon took a leading place at the Kansas bar. His 
practice extended throughout all the courts, and he was a 
salaried attorney for two railroads and a number of large 
business concerns. His fees were often very large, but at the 
same time he did much legal work for the poorer settlers with- 
out compensation, and he never willingly saw a man sent 
out of court without a hearing because he was unable to 
pay a lawyer. At the bar he won marked prestige by reason 
of his thorough understanding of the law and his constant 
devotion to his clients' interests. He prepared his cases with 



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precision and exactness, studied the question at issue from 
every conceivable standpoint, and was thus ready to meet 
not only the expected but also the unexpected, which hap- 
pens so frequently in the courts. 

Notwithstanding he was an active Democrat and lived 
on the Missouri River in close proximity to the State of 
Missouri, he was an uncompromising free-State man, and 
was perhaps as much responsible for the State enlisting in 
the free-State cause as any other person. He helped to pre- 
pare and adopt the constitution upon which the State of 
Kansas was admitted to the Union. He served in the first 
legislature and again and again in following legislatures 
until the policy of the State was firmly established. He was 
elected by the Democrats to the Kansas Legislature in 1862, 
without opposition, something unprecedented in that Re- 
publican State in those days. He was reelected by the 
Democrats against strong Republican opposition in an over- 
whelmingly Republican district in 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 
1868, 1876, and 1882, serving almost constantly for 18 
years, giving him the longest service in the Kansas Legisla- 
ture of any man in either political party. 

During his long and active service as a legislator he intro- 
duced and secured the passage of many needed and important 
laws that have fixed and settled the policy of the State on 
many matters of vast interest, and that have stood the test 
of time and experience. Mr. Glick in 1863 prepared and 
secured the passage of the first law in Kansas regulating the 
rate of interest on money, changing the then prevailing 
rates of from 5 and 3 per cent per month to 10 per cent per 
annum, with penalties for exacting usury. Also the first 
law relating to marriage, and providing for a record of the 
same, making it easy to prove the marriage and to establish 
the legitimacy of children and the title to property belong- 
ing to heirs. This law, passed in 1863, has been amended, 
but the original requirements of a license and a record of the 
marriage have not been changed. The occupy ing-claimant 
law, the law relating to wills, and the mechanics' lien law, 
with many others passed in the early sixties, that have stood 



Address of Mr. Thompson 15 

the test of time and extended by amendments to conform 
to changed conditions, but not changing their theory or 
purpose, are now part of the settled policy of the State. 
Gov. Guck, as chairman of the judiciary committee, in 1868, 
in revising the laws, prepared and secured the adoption of sec- 
tions 5046 and 5047 of the civil code, which have had a most 
important bearing on the proceedings of the supreme court. 

Section 5046 provides that in all cases decided by the 
supreme court it shall be the duty of the judges of the su- 
preme court to prepare and file with the papers of the case 
the opinion of the court upon the questions of law arising in 
the case before any mandate shall issue to the court below. 

Section 5047 provides that the judge writing the opinion 
of the court shall prepare a syllabus of the points of law 
decided in the case, and file the same with the papers in the 
case, and in all cases a copy of the syllabus must accompany 
the mandate to the court below. Previous to the adoption 
of those two sections of the code, in more than half of the 
cases tried and decided by the supreme court no opinions 
were filed, and litigants never knew on what grounds the 
cases were decided; and the lower courts, when cases were 
reversed, were left in ignorance of the reasons for reversal. 
These amendments to the code met with the universal in- 
dorsement of the bar of the State, and Gov. Guck received 
many thanks from district judges and members of the bar 
commending his acts in securing the passage of these statutes. 

In 1876 Gov. Guck was made speaker pro tempore of the 
house of representatives, although that body was strongly 
Republican. As a presiding officer he proved eminently 
fair and an expert parliamentarian. During his years in 
the legislature he was recognized as one of its strongest 
members. He was a ready debater and on the alert to detect 
all schemes aimed at the public treasury or at the rights and 
liberties of the people, and knew the full meaning and import 
of every bill passed. He was at the head of the judiciary 
and other important committees, and to him is largely due 
the credit for the complete and successful revision of the 
laws of Kansas made by the judiciary committee in 1868. 



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He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions 
in 1856, 1868, 1884, and 1892. He was the choice of the 
Kansas Democracy in 1884 for Vice President, and the 
Kansas delegation in the Democratic national convention 
at Chicago that year presented his name to the convention 
as its candidate for Vice President after the nomination of 
Grover Cleveland for President. 

He was nominated for governor in 1868 and made the 
race in obedience to his party's call, although his defeat was 
inevitable. In 1882 he was again the unanimous choice of 
his party for governor and made a memorable campaign, 
and, though fighting against great odds, among them being 
a Republican majority of over 52,000, he defeated that dis- 
tinguished Republican and Prohibitionist, John P. St. John, 
by 8,079 votes. The campaign of 1882 was an extremely 
lively contest. It was the first political campaign that I 
ever became interested in. My father, John F. Thompson, 
made his first political race in Kansas on the Democratic 
ticket for probate judge of Nemaha County, and I was natu- 
rally interested in the outcome, although only a mere boy. 
I remember especially the activity of Gov. Glick in that cam- 
paign. I learned from him at that time my first lesson in 
politics. He made a personal campaign, speaking in prac- 
tically every county in the State, and when the votes were 
counted he had overcome the fifty-odd thousand Republican 
majority. Gov. Glick was the only Democrat elected on 
the State ticket in 1882. Gov. Glick was our first and only 
Democratic governor until the present administration, and 
our present governor was also the only Democrat elected 
on the State ticket in 191 2. 

While in the election of 1882 the resubmission question 
cut some figure in the contest, as prohibition had only 
recently been adopted in the State, and most people who 
were opposed to the amendment at that time, regardless of 
political affiliations, naturally voted the Democratic ticket, 
yet, after all, the fight against the third term for St. John 
was really the controlling factor that brought success to the 
Democrats. No one in any party has ever been elected for 



Address of Mr. Thompson 17 

a third term for governor in Kansas, and very few men have 
been elected for a third term to any office. Resubmission, 
when submitted alone, has always been defeated, and al- 
ways will be. Resubmission was like a millstone around 
the neck of the Democratic Party so long as it gave encour- 
agement to this issue. General success never came to the 
party on principle until it freed itself of this burden. None 
of the old recognized leaders of the party now stands for 
resubmission. In fact, none of the leaders of any of the 
political parties now advocates it. It is a dead issue in 
Kansas, except to only a few politicians who refuse to recog- 
nize the settled policy of the State in this regard, and who 
occasionally attempt to resurrect it simply to cause trouble. 
Although the resubmissionists claimed to have elected Gov. 
GucK, their cause never received any consideration or en- 
couragement during his administration, and before he died, 
like David Overmyer and other former great leaders, he 
repudiated the doctrine. 

Gov. Gwck was inaugurated January 8, 1883, and his 
administration was marked by dignity, intelligence, and a 
careful and discreet management of the material and financial 
interests of the State. His long experience as a legislator 
gave him an intimate knowledge of the State's needs, and 
many valuable reform measures recommended in his message 
to the legislature were accomplished. He entered an earnest 
protest against the burdens imposed upon the agricultural 
classes by the railroads, and asked that legislation be enacted 
to prevent these exactions. A law creating a railroad com- 
mission and embodying substantially all the improvements 
asked by him was passed and proved of great benefit to the 
people of the State. 

Among other measures suggested by him and adopted by 
the legislature may be cited the first good-roads law enacted 
by the State; more just and equitable assessment laws for 
taxation; the establishment of a live-stock sanitary com- 
mission, with a State veterinary surgeon; and laws providing 
for the better care of public money, since the adoption of 
which not one dollar has been lost to the State. 

85890°— S. Doc. 990, 63-3 2 



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A wise economy without stinginess marked his manage- 
ment of the State's finances, and the various educational and 
charitable institutions of the State were admirably cared for. 
He was renominated for governor in 1884, but- was defeated 
by Col. John A. Martin, also of Atchison, although running 
15,000 votes ahead of his ticket. 

In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland pension 
agent at Topeka, and so satisfactorily discharged these duties 
that he was reappointed without solicitation on his part when 
Mr. Cleveland again came into office. During Gov. Guck's 
two terms as pension agent at the Topeka agency he received 
over $85,000,000, which he disbursed to ex-soldiers, and 
holds the Government's acknowledgment for the faithful 
disbursement of that large sum without the loss of one cent 
to the Government or to the old soldiers. Among those who 
served as employees under Gov. Gwck while pension agent 
there are still employed in the Pension Bureau in this city 1 5 
men, who have contributed the following statement for these 
proceedings, which I am pleased to present: 

We found in that closer relationship of employer and employee all he 
demanded, as the one in charge of this important Government position, was 
faithful, earnest, and honest endeavor to do and perform all duties assigned us 
the same as would be expected of us in any other field of human activity. He 
demanded the same requirements in public service as in private life. He 
exacted no more and was satisfied with no less. He insisted upon faithfulness 
in the performance of duty. He was decidedly averse to subterfuge, unmoved 
by flattery, and observant of the absolute rights of others. An unrelenting 
foe to unfaithfulness, he ever admired fidelity of purpose, honesty of endeavor, 
and uprightness of conduct. Whether in private, public, or official life, he 
believed the same rules should be conscientiously applied. Officially or 
privately he was easily approachable, listened with interest, advised with 
candor, and judged with mercy. 

With the exception of his immediate associates during the Civil War and 
perhaps a very few close friends in his social, public, or political life, it was 
not generally known that he served in an humble station during the Civil War. 
Still fewer of his immediate friends knew that he was wounded during his 
service. Inquiry of one of his closest friends, an important appointee during 
his term as governor of the State, brought an emphatic denial of his service, 
because, as he said, "Had the governor been a soldier he would certainly have 
told me." 

Men who campaigned with him when such a statement would have largely 
benefited his chances made no claim along that line, because they did not 
know it. He was decidedly averse to making use of this fact, even for political 
gain. That he took this course is characteristic of the man. Experience and 



Address of Mr. Thompson 19 

observation have shown that length of service is of far less importance than the 
fact of service. His country called; he obeyed the call, served the term 
required by the Government, was in a battle, received wounds, and when dis 
charged retired to civil life, as did thousands of others, to resume the obliga- 
tions, duties, and labors of citizenship. 

Guy O. Taylor, disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions; Cass 
Carr, John Hovenden, Lawrence A. McDonald, Mark P. Miller, 
Emmett Turner, Leonard S. Fortune, Isaac D. Huntsberger, 
O. B. Martin, C. D. Nichols, J. P. Wilson, Samuel C. Garrard, 
Rufus G. Kessler, E. E. Miller, William H. Ruff. 

For 30 years Gov. Glick was engaged in farming. He was 
the owner of a valuable tract of land of about 640 acres 4 
miles west of the city of Atchison, and there he successfully 
carried on stock raising, making a specialty of breeding short- 
horn cattle. A number of times he paid as high as $1,000 
for a single head, and among stock dealers be obtained a wide 
reputation, shipping cattle all over the United States. He 
was a close personal and political friend of Senator William 
A. Harris, who distinguished himself in this body. They had 
many things in common, and were especially mutually inter- 
ested in high-grade stock and intensive farming. 

He was one of the organizers of the State board of agri- 
culture, and served several terms as its president, and at the 
time of his death was still a member. He was a member of 
the Kansas Historical Society and its first vice president. 
He was a ready and vigorous writer, and contributed many 
valuable essays on agriculture, stock raising, and kindred 
subjects to various periodicals and public meetings. He 
was one of the Kansas commissioners at the Centennial 
in 1876 and a member of the board of managers at the 
Columbian Exposition in 1893. He was president of the 
Kansas board of managers at the Trans-Mississippi and 
International Exposition in 1898 at Omaha. 

Gov. Glick served in the Second Kansas Regiment under 
Col. M. Quigg, and was in a number of engagements on the 
border. He was wounded at the Battle of the Big Blue. 
He enlisted as a soldier in the Mexican War, but peace was 
declared before he saw active service. He was a Mason, and 
was one of the charter members of the Knights Templar 
Commandery at Atchison. 



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Always an uncompromising Democrat, Gov. Guck had 
the respect and esteem of Kansas people of all parties. His 
sagacity and courage in treating public questions, his de- 
testation of trickery, and his fair treatment of all won and 
kept him many loyal friends. 

His inflexible determination to make Kansas respected and 
entitled to the respect of the Nation forced him into a posi- 
tion of prominence and responsibility. His unswerving 
attitude through all the changes and vicissitudes of the State 
made his name a household word. Until the day of his death 
he represented in his own individuality the best history and 
attainments of the State of Kansas. More than to any other 
man is due him the credit for the construction of the impor- 
tant railroads of the State of Kansas. He was a charter 
member of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe organization, 
which line started from the city of Atchison, as its eastern 
terminus. He helped to build up the farming industries of 
the State, and was always consulted in all matters of farm- 
ing and stock raising. His natural instincts were in har- 
mony with an agricultural region. He was the best repre- 
sentative of an agricultural State. 

Gov. Guck was married in 1857 to Elizabeth Ryder, of 
Massillon, Ohio, whose grace and dignity adorned his home 
and added honor to his official life. Mrs. Glick still lives at 
Atchison in comfort and happiness, enjoying the rewards of 
a well-spent life. A son, Frederick H., and a daughter, 
Jennie, are the fruits of this union. Gov. Gwck died at his 
home April 13, 191 1 , and was buried at Mount Vernon Ceme- 
tery, Atchison, Kans. Thus ended the earthly career of one 
of the ablest, most active, and useful citizens who ever lived 
in Kansas, and whose achievements are indelibly written 
upon the pages of history of the State for more than a half 
century. It is therefore clear that for his historic renown 
and distinguished civic services he is in every way worthy of 
national commemoration by the State, and it is entirely 
fitting and proper that his statue in marble should be pre- 
sented by the State of Kansas and accepted by the Congress 
and placed in the National Statuary Hall. 



ADDRESS OF MR. BRISTOW 

Mr. President, George Washington Guck was a resident 
of Kansas for more than 50 years. He devoted much of his 
life to the promotion of the agricultural interests of the State. 
He was a genial, affable gentleman, who had attractive 
social qualities and made many personal friends. His pro- 
fessional and political career was not conspicuous. He was 
a member of the legislature of the State for many years, 
served on the State board of agriculture, I believe, from its 
organization to the time of his death, and was governor for 
two years. 

He was the only real Democrat ever elected governor of 
Kansas, except the present incumbent of that office. L. D. 
Lewelling and J. W. Leedy were elected governors over their 
Republican competitors, but they were both Populists, and 
were elected on a fusion ticket supported by the Populists 
and Democrats. Mr. Guck was elected governor in 1882, 
defeating Gov. John P. St. John, who was running for the 
third consecutive term. During St. John's incumbency of 
the office the prohibitory amendment to the constitution 
was adopted, and he began a vigorous crusade to enforce it. 
As a result the antiprohibition Republicans bolted and 
voted for Guck, who had been nominated by the Demo- 
crats on a strong antiprohibition platform. 

It is an interesting coincidence in Kansas history that 
Gov. Guck, the only avowed antiprohibitionist who has 
ever been elected governor of Kansas since the prohibitory 
amendment was adopted, is to be honored by the people of 
his State with a statue in Statuary Hall, though the issue 
upon which he was elected governor, that of opposition to 
the prohibitory amendment, has passed away. I have been 
told by friends of Gov. Guck that before his death he ad- 
mitted that prohibition had been beneficial to Kansas. And 
the party which nominated him and denounced prohibition 



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in the most violent terms has now repudiated its antiprohi- 
bition declarations and at this time is standing for the pro- 
hibitory law and its enforcement. So that, in fact, Gov. 
Guck and the party which he represented now admit that 
the issue upon which he was elected governor was a false 
one. The temporary victory which the Democratic Party 
won in the State by the election of Mr. Guck resulted in no 
legislation adverse to the prohibition law of the State. In 
fact, the law has grown stronger year by year, and to-day 
is more strongly intrenched in the minds of the people of 
Kansas than at any time since it was adopted, 34 years ago. 
If I had had a voice in the selecting of the second Kansan 
to be honored by a statue in the National Capitol, there 
are many others that I would have chosen in preference 
to Gov. Guck. But the legislature, upon whom the re- 
sponsibility is imposed, has made this choice, and I am 
glad to commend his good qualities and personal virtues. 



ADDRESS OF MR. STONE 

Mr/ President, for more than 25 years my home was at 
Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., located in the southwestern 
section of the State. Vernon County adjoins Bourbon 
County, Kans., of which Fort Scott is the county seat. 
These cities are about 20 miles apart. Fort Scott is the 
most important city in southeastern Kansas, and Nevada 
is one of the most beautiful, progressive, and important 
cities in southwestern Missouri. Because of the proximity 
of these counties and cities the people residing in them, 
respectively, were constantly brought into intimate inter- 
course with each other. Years ago I had a somewhat 
extensive acquaintance with the people of that part of Kansas 
tributary to Fort Scott. Back in the seventies and eighties 
I participated, more or less, in political campaigns in the 
Sunflower State, particularly in the southeastern section. In 
the campaign of 1882 George Washington Guck was the 
Democratic candidate for governor. I was complimented 
with an invitation to deliver several addresses in support of 
the ticket of which he was the head, and it was during that 
contest that I first became acquainted with Mr. Glick. 
Mr. Guck was elected governor in that somewhat memo- 
rable struggle. His victory was the occasion of great rejoic- 
ing among his political followers throughout Kansas, heartily 
shared in by thousands of Missourians of his political faith, 
especially along the western border of that State. I met 
him frequently afterwards, and although I can not say that I 
ever knew him intimately, I did know him well. He was a 
strong, virile, intellectual man, whose heart was full of kind- 
ness and sympathetic regard for his fellow men. He was 
broad minded and large hearted. He was a typical man of 
the then new and rapidly expanding West. He was one of 
the big men of Kansas — patriotic, clean in his life, devoted 
to the higher duties of citizenship, and withal brave and 

fearless. 

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He rendered numerous valuable services to his State and 
country, and justly held a high place in public esteem. 
His long and distinguished life was closed among the people 
to whom he had become greatly endeared, and when he 
died his countrymen felt that a great man had fallen. 

Among the States that make up our Union, Kansas, 
because of her exceptional history and marvelous develop- 
ment, stands forth as somewhat unique and remarkable. 
She is one of the great States of our federation, and for her 
the spirit of promise stands like a shining figure beckoning 
her onward. Gov. Guck bore a conspicuous part as a 
builder in making Kansas beautiful and great. It is well, 
therefore, that the people of Kansas should honor the 
memory of this man who was so useful to them and the 
country by giving him a place in Statuary Hall among 
the mute marble images of so many of the great sons of 
America. 



ADDRESS OF MR. REED 

Mr. President, the home of Gov. Glick for many years was 
within a few miles of Kansas City, where I reside. It there- 
fore happened that I had occasion to follow with some degree 
of accuracy his career. 

George W. Glick was a warrior on the battle fields of 
progress. He was one of those men, all too rare, who place 
principle above popularity and subordinate private interests 
to the public weal. 

For a half century he waged a desperate struggle on behalf 
of the principles of a party hopelessly in the minority in his 
home State. During at least 40 years of that time not a 
single star of hope illumined the dark horizon. His con- 
tention therefore was without expectation of emolument or 
reward. No man in Kansas could anticipate political prefer- 
ment who marched under the banner of Democracy. His 
fidelity through the long years to that cause is certain proof 
that he found his inspiration in duty. 

In this long and desperate contest his spirits never flagged, 
his zeal never abated. After each disaster his was the first 
hand to raise the stricken banner from the dust. His voice 
rang loud and clear as he rallied the scattered hosts. His 
valor always inspired the hearts of others with courage. So 
he continued from early manhood until the day of his death 
to contend for great principles the adoption of which he be- 
lieved essential to the welfare of the Republic. He saw those 
principles grow in popularity and strength. He lived to 
witness the crystallization into law of many reforms for 
which in the beginning his voice resounded almost alone. 

It is eminently proper that the Federal Government unite 
with Kansas in paying honor to the lofty citizenship of such 
a man. It is to men of his fiber and character the country 
owes its onward march. Sincerity in public life, self-sacri- 
fice, and high courage are the qualities which in the end make 
up the sum of human progress. It has been such architects 
as GeorCxE W. Glick who have laid the foundation and 
erected the walls of the temple of civilization. 

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ADDRESS OF MR. THOMAS 

Mr. President, George W. Guck was a type of the early 
westerner, the man who cast his fortunes and utilized his 
talents upon the frontier in the stirring days when there 
was a frontier. In those days the venturesome and the 
ambitious were attracted by the El Dorado of the West, 
and, obeying that instinct which has impelled the human 
race westward from the dawn of civilization, he entered 
upon a career having its beginning in a rude western and 
uninhabited land and its full fruition in its redemption 
from barbarism and its occupation by the white man. 

Gov. Guck was elected to the chief magistracy of the State 
which he helped to found at a time when questions of internal 
interest and importance had weakened the loyalty of the 
great majority party to its ticket. He became conspicuous 
by reason of the fact that he was the first Democratic 
governor of the State of Kansas; but with the eyes of the 
country upon him in consequence of that unique circum- 
stance, he bore the burdens of his position with dignity and 
discharged its duties with eminent success. 

It is altogether fit and proper, Mr. President, that the 
marble effigy of such a man should be the companion piece 
from the State of Kansas of that of the great Senator, John 
J. Ingalls, who was conspicuous for so many years in the 
Senate Chamber. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Clark, of Wyoming, in the 
chair). The question is on agreeing to the concurrent 
resolution submitted by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. 
Thompson]. 

The concurrent resolution was unanimously agreed to. 
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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914 

Mr. Thompson. I submit a concurrent resolution, and I 
ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. 

The Vice President. The Secretary will read the con- 
current resolution. 

The Secretary read the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
30) , as follows : 

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be 
printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the accept- 
ance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick 16,500 copies, of 
which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and distribution 
by the governor of Kansas; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed 
to have printed an engraving of said statue to accompany said proceedings, 
said engraving to be paid for out of the appropriation for the Bureau of Engrav- 
ing and Printing. 

Mr. Smoot. I ask that the concurrent resolution may be 
referred to the Committee on Printing. 

Mr. Thompson. Very well. 

The Vice President. Is there objection? The Chair 
hears none, and the concurrent resolution will be referred to 
the Committee on Printing. If there are no further con- 
current or other resolutions, the morning business is closed. 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914 

Mr. Chilton. From the Committee on Printing I report 
back favorably with an amendment Senate concurrent reso- 
lution No. 30, submitted by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. 
Thompson] on July 23, authorizing the printing of 16,500 
copies of the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance 
of the statue of the late George Washington Glick, accom- 
panied by an engraving of said statue, and I ask unanimous 
consent for its present consideration. 

The Vice President. Is there objection to the present 

consideration of the concurrent resolution ? 

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The amendment of the Committee on Printing was, in line 
8, after the words " distribution by the," to strike out " gov- 
ernor of Kansas; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
directed to have printed an engraving of said statue to 
accompany said proceedings, said engraving to be paid for 
out of the appropriation for the Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing," and insert "Senators and Representatives in 
Congress from the State of Kansas. The Joint Committee 
on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared 
for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of 
said statue to accompany the proceedings," so as to make 
the concurrent resolution read : 

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
be printed and bound in one volume trie proceedings in Congress upon the 
acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Guck 16,500 copies, 
of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and distribution 
by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Kansas. 
The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy pre- 
pared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said statue 
to accompany the proceedings. 

Mr. Smoot. Mr. President, I ask that the last clause of 
the amendment to the resolution be again read. 

The Vice President. The Secretary will read as re- 
quested. 

The Secretary read as follows: 

The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy 
prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said 
statue to accompany the proceedings. 

Mr. Smoot. I will simply say to the Senator from West 
Virginia that in the past the Joint Committee on Printing 
have always been able to secure such plates from the Director 
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but it may be that 
we may be able to procure the plate in this case through the 
Public Printer. 

Mr. Chilton. Oh, yes; that can be done. 

The Vice President. The question is on the amendment 
reported by the committee. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The resolution as amended was agreed to. 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE 
HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 



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PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 

FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914 

Mr. Taggart. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
the present consideration of the resolution which I send to 
the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 558 

Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Glick, erected in 
Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, July 18, 
1914, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

The Speaker. Is there objection to the present considera- 
tion of the resolution ? 

There was no objection. 

The Speaker. Is there not a Senate resolution like this ? 

Mr. Taggart. The Senate resolution relates to the ac- 
ceptance by the Senate. 

The Speaker. And this is the corresponding House reso- 
lution ? 

Mr. Taggart. Yes. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1914 

The Speaker. The Chair lays before the House the reso- 
lution for the special order, which is as follows: 

Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Glick, erected in 
Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, July 18, 
1914, at 3 o'clock p. m. 

The Chair designates the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. 
Taggart] to act as Speaker. [Applause.] 

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Mr. Taggart assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the reso- 
lution. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Guck, erected in 
Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, July 18, 
1914, at 3 o'clock p. m. 



ADDRESS OF MR. CAMPBELL 

Mr. Speaker, the law provides that the several States of the 
Union may send to Statuary Hall statues of two citizens of 
the State eligible for such an honor, and for the acceptance 
of such statue by the Congress of the United States. This 
House is now for the second time engaged in the acceptance 
of a statue from the State of Kansas. John James Ingalls, 
in statue, has for many years occupied a place in Statuary 
Hall. George Washington Guck, formerly governor of 
the State, was a pioneer. He went to Kansas before it 
became a State. He went before there were railroads west 
of the Mississippi River. 

When he arrived upon the prairies of Kansas in Atchison 
County he was at the end of the road trail in that direction. 
Travel had not gone beyond, and when he stopped he 
began the work of a pioneer in making Kansas a habitable 
place. At that time nothing greeted him and those with 
him except the broad expanse of prairie that receded from the 
Missouri River westward to the Rocky Mountains. There 
were no common carriers of interstate commerce, no bridges, 
no public buildings and but few of a private character. 
There were no gas or electric light plants, no telephones, or 
rural delivery of mails. A young man full of energy and 
ability even then saw opportunities in that part of our 
domain that was then designated upon the map as the 
American Desert. He knew, as those with him knew, what 
it would require to make that desert a fit home for a 
splendid citizenship. He knew of the sacrifices, of the 
energy, of the determination that it would take. He devoted 
himself to the work of making Kansas a great State from the 
day that he arrived upon her prairies until the day of his 
death. He found it a raw prairie; he left it a fertile field, 
inhabited by a prosperous and happy people. When he 
came he found nothing; when he left the people had every- 
thing. Gov. Glick saw the prairie broken, houses, barns, 

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34 Statue of George Washington Glick 

schoolhouses, churches, bridges, courthouses, colleges, state- 
house, and charitable institutions all built and paid for. 

Gov. Guck was one of the many thousands of heroes who 
went forward and removed the frontier. The frontier is 
gone, and those who moved it are going. No honor is too 
great for them, and George W. Glick was one of their 
leaders. 

He was early engaged in politics. He was a Democrat. 
He worked for and voted with his party, and yet almost from 
the beginning of his political career he was elected to office 
by the vote of his political opponents. He was a member of 
the Kansas Legislature from the early days of the State's 
admission to the Union, at odd intervals, whenever he could 
be prevailed upon to go, up to the time that he served as 
governor, in 1882. 

He was a peculiarly popular man with those who knew him. 
He had a way of getting close to his associates. It is not 
strange, therefore, that the people of Atchison County sent 
him to the Kansas Legislature whenever he expressed a 
willingness to go. 

In 1882 a peculiar political situation arose in the State of 
Kansas, which finds its sequel here this 18th day of July, 
1 91 4, in the acceptance of a statue for the Hall of Fame of a 
man who saw opportunity and seized it. 

In 1880, after a long struggle, Kansas became a prohibi- 
tion State. The Democratic Party in its platforms had been 
declaring against sumptuary legislation of any character 
whatever. It had declared for resubmission of the pro- 
hibitory amendment to the constitution. But the people of 
Kansas did not adopt constitutional prohibition in a spas- 
modic frame of mind. It was a deliberate judgment upon 
their part. It was a determined forward movement from 
which they did not propose to recede. One of the great 
men of Kansas and the Nation, John Peter St. John, was the 
leader of the prohibition cause. He had just served four 
years as governor and had much to do with the adoption of 
prohibition in the State. He was running for governor for 
the third time. 



Address of Mr. Campbell 35 



The Democratic Party nominated George Washington 
Guck as their candidate for governor upon a resubmission 
platform and in opposition to a third term, and the campaign 
was made on two lines— opposition to a third term for Gov. 
St. John and resubmission of the constitutional amendment 
for prohibition. Many men who were opposed to the Demo- 
cratic Party and were ardent Republicans had not yet 
brought themselves into hearty sympathy with prohibition, 
and they found it easy to vote for a candidate for governor 
who was making the issue that Gov. St. John had already had 
two terms. It was a violation of the precedents for the 
people of Kansas to give to any man a State office for more 
than two terms. 

Guck was elected. His term of office as governor was not 
conspicuous for any great achievement. The legislature was 
Republican. Gov. Guck was the only man elected that 
year on the Democratic State ticket. At the end of two 
years he retired to his home in Atchison, after one term as 
governor, with the respect of his political foes and with the 
devotion of his political friends. He was many times 
rewarded by his party and given place both of honor and 
emolument. He attended many Democratic national con- 
ventions as a delegate. He was the choice of the Kansas 
Democrats in the national convention of 1884 for Vice Presi- 
dent. He was twice appointed by Grover Cleveland as 
pension agent for the Topeka district, at Topeka, Kans., 
pensions being distributed from there to the veterans in a 
number of adjoining States. 

In 191 1 Gov. Guck, ripe with years and experience and 
full of honor, reached the end of his earthly career. Gov. 
Guck was chosen by the Kansas Legislature for this honor 
from among a long line of Kansans eligible for the Hall of 
Fame. Offhand, I think of John Brown, Jim Lane, Charles 
Robinson, Preston B. Plumb, David J. Brewer, Charles W. 
Blair, and George T. Anthony. I think of others whom 
death will enroll in the list. Among the many, John Peter 
St. John, now full of years and crowned with honor. He is 
rising above political prejudice, and is esteemed and honored 



36 Statue of George Washington Glick 

throughout the Republic for his devotion to a great cause. 
But I must not speak more of the living nor much more of the 
dead. A statue of Gov. Guck, that does credit to the sculp- 
tor who made it and to Gov. Guck himself, stands in Statu- 
ary Hall at the left of the door as you pass from the House to 
the Senate. The statue of Ingalls stands at the right of the 
door. They were neighbors in Atchison. They are together 
in the Hall of Fame. The statue of Gov. Glick has just 
been unveiled. I favor the resolution providing for its 
acceptance by Congress. [Applause.] 

Mr. Helvering assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Kansas 
[Mr. Taggart] is recognized. 



ADDRESS OF MR. TAGGART 

Mr. Speaker, George Washington Guck was the ninth 
governor of Kansas. His name comes of that virile and 
sturdy German stock, of which people no less than 6,000,000 
have come to the shores of the United States since the year 
1820, at which time we began the practice of making accu- 
rate statistics of immigration. 

His grandfather, George Glick, who was the son of the 
original German immigrant, served faithfully as a soldier 
in the War of 181 2. The father of the mother of Gov. 
Guck, who was George Sanders, a Scotchman, also fought 
in the War of 181 2 under the flag of the United States. 
The ancestors of Gov. Guck were residents of Pennsyl- 
vania and were identified with the interests and industries 
of that State. His father was a public-spirited man and 
took an active part in the affairs of his community. He 
removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, where the future gov- 
ernor of Kansas was born on the anniversary of American 
independence in 1827. George W. Glick became a law 
student at an early age, and at 21 was admitted to the bar 
and began the practice of law at Fremont, Ohio. 

A young attorney could acquire a reputation 70 years ago 
more rapidly and more effectively than at this time. The 
profession was held in high respect. It had not suffered the 
unfortunate taint of commercialism that has come to it, 
especially in our great cities. It was then distinctly a pro- 
fession. It has now become scarcely anything more than a 
business. Young George W. Guck attained local promi- 
nence and high respect as a practitioner of law at Fremont. 
Sixty years ago the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska 
offered to young and ambitious men the most promising 
field of any part of the Union. There were no railroads in 
those Territories at that time, and transportation was con- 
ducted by means of steamboats on the Missouri River. At 

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that time there were two cities of importance in the Terri- 
tory of Kansas, only about 30 miles apart and located on the 
Missouri River, namely, Leavenworth and Atchison. These 
were perhaps the most alluring places for ambitious young 
professional men who sought to identify themselves with 
the new and growing Territory. The name of Kansas had 
gone abroad throughout the world. There, upon that soil, 
men met each other face to face and debated with each 
other, sometimes with terrible meaning in their voices, the 
grim question as to whether or not the State of Kansas 
should be slave or free. So intense had become that issue 
that there was bloodshed in Kansas. There were 

Great drops on the bunch grass, but not of the dew. 

The reputation of the exciting struggle that was in progress 
added to the enthusiasm of the young and vigorous class of 
men who emigrated there. 

George W. Guck heard the call of Kansas, and in 1859 
he went and cast his fortune in the town of Atchison. He 
immediately identified himself with the movement for a 
free State. He was an uncompromising foe of slavery. 

I presume we have all noticed how certain towns produce 
a great many noted men. We can go up into the town 
of Concord, Mass., and find triat in that little city of a few 
thousand inhabitants there are perhaps a dozen names of 
men and women that have gone forth throughout the 
world — names destined for immortality. And we find it so 
in many another place. Perhaps in every State of the 
Union there is some one city which, for some reason or 
another, was the dwelling place of an unusual number of 
celebrated persons. 

About the same time there came to the same town of 
Atchison another man whose statue adorns Statuary Hall 
alongside of that of Gov. Glick — John James Ingalls. 

Strange, unaccountable Kansas! Within that "grassy 
quadrangle" the unexpected seemed to be the law of life. 
There, in the midst of the pioneers who were passing through 
Atchison, was the polished and cultured Ingalls, an orator 



Address of Mr. Taggart 39 



whose genius approached that of Burke, a satirist outrival- 
ing Juvenal, an intellectual gladiator whose arena for 18 
years was to be the Senate of the United States. ' 

In that very same year came a young man to Atchison, 
Kans., from Brownsville, Pa., the town in which James G. 
Blaine grew up, and this young man afterwards became a 
governor of Kansas, the next following Gov. Guck. He 
was John Alexander Martin, secretary of the convention 
that drafted the constitution of Kansas in 1859, and colonel 
of the Eighth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, a gallant regiment, 
whose record for sacrifice, heroism, and suffering stands 
high in the list of the military organizations that have 
served under the flag of the United States. Albert H. 
Horton, afterwards a distinguished chief justice of the 
Supreme Court of Kansas, came and took up his residence 
in the little town of Atchison at about the same time that 
George W. Glick came there. 

John Seaton, a mechanic and ironmaster — a man who had 
learned his trade in the old-fashioned way — came and estab- 
lished a foundry in Atchison and became one of the wealthi- 
est men in that city. He left after him not only wealth 
but an inheritance of honor and a name and reputation for 
justice toward labor, for personal interest in everyone who 
took part in his life work with him, and for an exalted type 
of citizenship that will remain as one of the brightest tradi- 
tions of the city of Atchison. 

I shall not name the living now, nor can I call to mind 
all the distinguished dead who lived and worked out their 
careers in that one city. Suffice it to say, without mention- 
ing States or State lines, which seem to mean less as time 
goes by, that they who came to Atchison represented all 
that was enterprising, generous, high-minded, and progres- 
sive in the American people. 

George W. Guck formed a partnership with an able 
lawyer of Atchison — Hon. Albert G. Otis — and in this part- 
nership continued in the active practice of law until 1894. 
Mr. Guck was recognized as one of the foremost attorneys 



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at the Kansas bar. Railroad building was active in his 
time, and his services were sought by railway companies in 
the multitude of difficulties that beset their path in the 
beginning of their operations in Kansas. He often received 
large fees, but it was said of Gov. Glick that if a poor 
person had a case and seemed to have a right to be heard in 
court, regardless of whether he was to . receive any fee or 
not, he never refused or failed to see to it that poverty 
did not prevent a fair hearing in court. 

No successful attorney has ever escaped at least being 
requested to take part in politics. Very few have been able 
to resist that temptation. George W. Glick was a Demo- 
crat. It is well known that for the first 30 or 40 years 
of the history of Kansas the State was overwhelmingly 
Republican in politics, and there was little, if any, oppor- 
tunity for one having other views politically to attain to 
any high place in that State. Mr. Glick, however, accepted 
a nomination for the legislature, and he was elected in 1863, 
1864, 1865, 1866, and then again in 1868 and 1876 and 1882 
as a member of that body. 

He took a very active part in preparing legislation in 
Kansas. He was especially interested in civil procedure, 
and his work was of immense value to the bench and bar. 
Prior to his service in the legislature the Supreme Court of 
Kansas was not required to render its opinions in writing. 
Through the influence of Mr. Glick as a member of the 
legislature laws requiring opinions to be fully written and a 
syllabus to be prepared by the judge who speaks for the 
court were enacted. In 1863 he drafted and secured the 
passage of the first law in Kansas regulating the rate of 
interest on money. In the early days of Kansas, as in all 
other frontier places, exorbitant rates of interest were 
allowed by statute. He had a law passed through the 
legislature changing the then prevailing rates of interest 
from 5 and 3 per cent a month to 10 and 12 per cent per 
annum, with penalties attached for usury. 

He also took an active part in framing the marriage laws 
of Kansas. It was extremely difficult under the early 



Address of Mr. Tag gar t 41 



statutes of many of the States to prove marriage. This 
was simplified so as to establish, without all of those diffi- 
culties, the legitimacy of children and the title to property. 
He took part in establishing and perfecting the occupying 
claimant law, the law relating to wills, the mechanics' Hen 
law, with many others passed in the early sixties that have' 
stood the test of time and still remain as a part of the settled 
policy of the State of Kansas. 

In 1876, although the legislature was overwhelmingly 
Republican, Mr. Guck was chosen speaker pro tempore of 
the House of Representatives of Kansas. This honor, more 
significant than it perhaps may sound, usually means in the 
house of representatives of that State that the speaker pro 
tempore presides over a large part of the deliberations. 
But one speaker pro tempore for an entire session is elected, 
and he has much to do in conducting the proceedings. 
George W. Guck was a ready and able debater. He had 
the faculty of immediately grasping the meaning of every- 
thing that is done in a legislature. He was a practical 
lawyer. He did not have to read a statute over and over 
nor examine a bill at great length to grasp the full import 
and meaning of it. His services were therefore of great 
value in a legislative body. 

He was three times elected a delegate to Democratic 
national conventions, serving in that capacity in 1868, in 
1884, and in 1892. A fact in his history that is not well 
known is that the Kansas delegation in the Democratic 
national convention at Chicago in 1884 presented his name 
as a candidate for Vice President, and he received a large 
number of votes. 

He was nominated for governor of Kansas in 1868 at a 
time when he and everyone else knew that there was no 
opportunity to elect a Democrat to that office. He accepted 
the nomination, performed his duty to the party, and made 
an active campaign throughout the State. The people of 
Kansas remembered the canvass that was made by George 
W. Guck, and in 1882 he was again put in nomination as 
tht unanimous choice of his party for the office of governor. 



42 Statue of George Washington Glick 

Something was said by Mr. Campbell of the situation 
which obtained in Kansas at that time. One of the ablest 
platform speakers that has ever appeared in Kansas, or, per- 
haps, elsewhere, was then closing his second term as governor 
of Kansas. John Peter St. John, who still survives, and 
though past the age of 80 years retains apparently the fire 
and vigor that characterized his movements 40 years ago, 
was elected governor of Kansas in 1880 for the second time, 
and, in 1882, offered himself as a candidate for governor for 
a third term. 

It is a strange fact that unwritten laws are very often 
enforced with greater rigor and with more certainty than the 
most solemnly enacted statutes. The Republican Party of 
Kansas was always a powerful and cohesive organization. 
It had its rules and regulations. It had its unwritten laws, 
and whenever any member of that organization in public 
life, having enjoyed two terms in office, presented himself as 
a candidate for a third term, he was almost invariably dis- 
ciplined by the Republican Party of Kansas. Two great 
facts made George W. GiyiCK governor — the unwritten 
law of the prevailing party and the uncontested and 
acknowledged excellence of his character and attainments. 
He was elected by a majority of more than 8,000 votes, 
although the prevailing party had an ordinary majority of 
more than 50,000 votes in that State. 

He entered upon the discharge of his duties as governor 
on the 8th day of January, 1883. Sometimes I think that 
those who are elected by a minority party, aided by some 
of the majority, make a special effort to serve the people. 
Their administration is always interesting. They are always 
respected by the majority party. They are almost idolized 
by the minority party, to which they gave, perhaps, an 
unexpected victory. George W. Guck was very popular 
as governor of Kansas. His administration was marked 
by intelligence and dignity. His long experience in the 
legislature and his knowledge of the affairs of the State 
fitted him in the highest degree to discharge the duties of 
governor. • 



Address of Mr. Taggart 43 

He was an economist in public affairs. Perhaps ulti- 
mately it was hopeless, as it seems hopeless always, to pro- 
test against prodigal expenditures. It has always been an 
issue in every new and growing State. Gov. Glick protested 
with the utmost vigor against extravagance in public office. 
Perhaps he injured his popularity to some extent by his 
protests; but he foreshadowed in his administration and in 
his canvass for governor the fact that sometime the people 
are going to take their minds off the issues that are not so 
vital and give their consideration to the more pertinent and 
practical issue of public expenditures. He knew that the 
American people pay the heaviest of all taxes. The national, 
State, county, school district, and city or township taxes 
of the American citizen added together make the greatest 
per capita expenditure for public purposes in the world. 
He entered his vigorous protest against this great abuse, so 
incidental to a wealthy and growing community. 

Gov. GiviCK was a pioneer. He had that advantage that 
only pioneers have. He saw a country as nature had fash- 
ioned it, and witnessed the work of man by which it was 
converted into homes. This can happen but once. Great 
artists have undertaken to paint scenes that could have 
occurred but once in the history of the world. Poets have 
sought after themes describing incidents in the history of 
man as classics, because they never happened before and 
could never happen again. The untouched prairie could 
be broken but once, and in his time he saw that prairie 
converted into a landscape that would delight the eye of 
one who can paint on canvas the glory of rural life. 

He was always interested in everything incidental to the 
growing community. While he was governor he caused to 
be established the live stock sanitary commission for the 
protection of live stock in the State. He insisted on and 
had enacted into law statutes prescribing better care of the 
public funds. And let it be said that since his day not a 
single dollar of the public money of Kansas has been lost. 

In 1885 he was appointed pension agent by President 
Cleveland, and afterwards reappointed. In that capacity 



44 Statue of George Washington Glick 

he disbursed $85,000,000, and among his papers is the receipt 
of the Government, showing the faithful disbursement of 
that vast sum of money. 

He went out as a volunteer in the Second Kansas Regiment 
and took part in the protection of Kansas when it was at- 
tacked in what is known as the Price raid. 

He gave the last years of his life to agriculture, especially 
to the improvement of the live stock of Kansas. He had 
one of the finest stock farms in the State and took a pride 
in breeding fine cattle. He was one of the commissioners 
appointed by the State to the Centennial Exposition in 
1876. He was again sent to the International Exposition 
in Omaha in 1898. Throughout his long life he was an 
interesting figure in the history of Kansas, and was identified 
with every important or exciting event in the history of 
the State. 

In 1857 he married Elizabeth Ryder, of Massillon, Ohio, a 
lady descended from a distinguished colonial ancestry. Her 
ancestors were among the first settlers of Concord, Mass., 
and she derived her name from forbears who were well 
known among the early colonists of New York City. For 
50 years and more this noble matron having with her the 
best traditions of American life presided over the hospitable 
home of George W. Guck with the grace and dignity 
inherited from a fine ancestry. She added to the success 
of his public life the greater blessing of domestic happiness. 
Two children were born of this union — Frederick H. Glick 
and Mrs. James W. Orr, of Atchison, Kans. 

George W. Guck died April 13, 191 1, at the age of 84 
years, having devoted to the world two-thirds of a century 
of active and valuable service, all of which added to the 
welfare of his fellow men, and the progress of the great and 
growing community that was the scene of his noblest efforts. 

In conclusion, let it be said of George W. Guck that 
he had one of those fortunate frames of mind which was 
not easily changed nor readily prejudiced nor carried away 
by any sudden impulse. He never moped nor mourned 
over defeat. He was calm, good-natured, and sensible in 



Address of Mr. Taggart 45 

victory. He never visited revenge of any kind or character 
upon an enemy, if indeed there was anyone who ever had 
such resentment against him as to be described as an enemy. 
He was a kind and gentle citizen, full of enterprise and hope. 
He was approachable and sympathetic. George W. Glick 
was one of the best of that great multitude of enterprising 
citizens who were the pioneers of Kansas. There was no 
bitterness that gnawed out his life. There was no hatred 
that troubled his spirit. In his heart was good will toward 
all men. He saw the beginning of a great State and wit- 
nessed its progress for more than 50 years. He left it better 
than he found it. He added to the sum of its enterprise 
and he helped to develop its resources. He left his name 
and his work as a part of its history. [Applause.] 



ADDRESS OF MR. MURDOCK 

Mr. Speaker, there are several considerations which lead 
me to add to the expressions already made here this after- 
noon, and not the least of the moving causes has been the 
nature of the addresses made by the gentlemen who imme- 
diately preceded me, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Taggart. In 
the nature of things that portion of the Capitol once the 
Hall of Representatives, and now known as Statuary Hall, 
in which each State may place two statues, will soon be 
closed to additional memorials. It may not be amiss to 
remark in passing that as the custom of placing statues 
there grows old, and, because of the physical limitations of 
the area itself, as well as the provisions of the law, draws to 
a close, the legislative business of presenting a statue to the 
Nation has become more or less perfunctory, a function 
performed in a wilderness of empty seats, before a drowsy 
reporter or two in the press gallery and a scant baker's 
dozen of other auditors. And yet the function, I submit, 
desperately formal as it has grown to be, carries with it a 
kindly office; for there must be virtue in the mellowing 
reminiscences which on these occasions well up out of the era 
that is gone, when, through the mists of the past, the hard 
lines soften and the soft lines glow as they have to-day to 
me, as I listened to the addresses of the two gentlemen who 
have preceded me. 

George W. Guck belonged to an exceptional generation 
in time and place. The first settlement of Kansas came 
about not so much through the lure of land as from challenge 
of political contest, grown white-hot with the contention of 
50 years. Men moved from the South and from the North 
into Kansas to battle. Largely because of river travel, 
then the sole means of public conveyance, the first part of 
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Address of Mr. Murdock 47 

Kansas settled was the northeastern corner, which is touched 
by the Missouri River. In this section of Kansas the chief 
cities were and are Atchison and Leavenworth. George 
W. Guck was from Atchison. Across the river is St. 
Joseph. That part of Kansas and Missouri is one of the 
richest agricultural sections in the world. It was here that 
the spark of conflict that had irritated a Nation for decades 
burst into devastating flame. The nomenclature of Kansas 
shows in many instances how early the southern element 
dominated politically, for you will find on the map of Kansas 
names of men who were politically prominent in the South 
60 and 70 years ago. The contest here was high-tensioned 
and all-absorbing. There was no neutral ground. And no 
man was neutral. Each new arrival was to one side a loss, 
to the other an acquisition. And no man escaped. 

As a boy I heard my father tell the story, legendary but 
illuminating, to the effect that when the proslavery men 
possessed the northeastern corner of Kansas it was their 
custom to post themselves at an important landing on the 
Missouri River and interrogate the new arrival to determine 
whether he was proslavery or antislavery. The crowd had 
tied to a convenient post a cow, and they asked the new- 
comer what the animal was. If he said it was a cow, they 
permitted him to remain as likely to be proslavery, but if 
he said it was a " keow," pronounced with what was believed 
to be the New England twang, they sent him back posthaste 
across the Missouri River as surely antislavery. 

To the struggle for political possession the untold agri- 
cultural possibilities of the domain remained for the moment 
secondary and subordinate, for knowledge of its resources 
was necessarily limited. The map makers had libeled it by 
including a part of it in the "Great American Desert." 
Even its Indian population was not large. Some of it was 
unknown, for indeed only a few years before — that is, until 
the Mexican War — a part of Kansas was Mexico. The terri- 
tory was a long amphitheater, sweeping gently upward from 
the Missouri River to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains — 



48 Statue of George Washington Glick 

prairie — with all the mystery and fascination and loveli- 
ness that Bryant limned when he wrote — 

These are the gardens of the desert, these 

The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, 

For which the speech of England has no name — 

The prairies. I behold them for the first. 

And my heart swells, while the dilated sight 

Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo, they stretch 

In airy undulations, far away, 

As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, 

Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed 

And motionless forever. Motionless? 

No; they are all unchained again. The clouds 

Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath 

The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye ; 

Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase 

The sunny ridges. Breezes of the south, 

Who toss the golden and the flamelike flowers 

And pass the prairie hawk that, poised on high, 

Flaps his broad wings yet moves not — ye have played 

Among the palms of Mexico and vines 

Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks 

That from the fountains of Sonora glide 

Into the calm Pacific. Have ye fanned 

A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? 

Man has no part in all this glorious work; 

The hand that built the firmament hath heaved 

And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes 

With herbage, planted them with island groves, 

And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor 

For this magnificent temple of the sky — 

With flowers whose glory and whose multitude 

Rival the constellations. The great heavens 

Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love — 

A nearer vault, and of a tenderer blue, 

Than that which bends above our eastern hills. 

This prairie, this fair domain, had its civil birth in the 
red passion of fratricidal strife, and a State, fitted incom- 
parably by nature as a theater for peace and contentment, 
came to the Nation as " Bleeding Kansas." 

But the vastness of its natural resources were not long 
unrecognized. After the Civil War the immigration which 
came into Kansas was largely that of the soldiers of the 
Union Army, men who had been tempered by the mighty 



Address of Mr. Murdock 49 

rigors and discipline of war. They launched, individually 
and collectively, not only into the development of the 
State, but into politics, and there followed in that period 
of the history of Kansas a day of the most spirited political 
contest, conducted with a partisan discipline which was, in 
its severity, almost military. The Republican Party domi- 
nated. Its conventions were huge affairs of tremendous 
contentions and intense factional passion. But the disci- 
pline was perfect. The defeated aspirant for a nomination 
pledged fealty. To "scratch" a ticket was an unpardon- 
able sin; to be " read out of the party " a disgrace. A nom- 
ination was an election. Kansas in this period was prob- 
ably the most partisan Republican of all the States in the 
Union. 

The Democrats of Kansas at that period were mostly men 
who had been Democrats before the war, many of whom had 
served in the Union Army during the war. Immigration to 
the State added to their number, and in all localities they 
formed small groups of individuals who held fast to their 
opinions and who as a determined but always cheerful 
minority struggled at each election in precinct, city, county, 
and State; never, however, with notable success until 
George W. Guck was elected governor. 

Gov. John P. St. John has been referred to here by Mr. Tag- 
gart as one of the strongest, if not the strongest, man on the 
platform this Nation has seen in a generation. He is, in 
fact, one of the strongest men this Nation ever produced, 
the pioneer in a principle which spreads around the world. 
He had been a highly popular governor for two terms. His 
adherents attempted a third term for him. He was attacked 
by the Democrats under the leadership of George W. 
Guck, and Mr. Guck as a Democrat was elected governor 
of Kansas in this most partisan of Republican States, a little 
less than 20 years after the close of the Civil War. This 
event was manna to the Kansas Democrats. They had 
traveled long in the wilderness. And in their hour of tri- 
umph and jubilation as partisans they exalted George W. 

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50 Statue of George Washington Glick 

GiyiCK. That initial triumph remains in the minds of 
Kansas Democrats epochal, and it led to the legislative 
preference which sent his statue here. 

In the election of George W. Guck party discipline in 
Kansas had broken down and it was known of all men that 
despite its strong partisan qualities at bottom Kansas was 
politically individual in its mental processes. The condi- 
tions which led to the early settlement of Kansas invited 
no weaklings there, and the conditions in Kansas were such 
that if a weakling came he could not stay. The early 
Kansans were sons of strength. That is not mere laudation 
voiced by one partial to his State. As a boy I knew most 
of the Kansans who have been mentioned here to-day — 
Robinsons, Hudsons, Martins, Ewings, Anthonys, Brewers, 
Thatchers, Lelands, Wares, Ryans, Crawfords, Plumbs, 
the Elders, the Pecks, the matchless Ingalls, the Speers, 
and hundreds of others I could name were each distinct 
individual types, all of exceptional talent and strong fiber, 
men capable of every responsibility and worthy of statues 
here. 

Kansas was the first of the Union States after the war to 
send an ex-Confederate, W. A. Harris, to the United' States 
Senate. This was in 1897. But as early as 1883 Kansas 
was forgetting the lines of political division that grew out 
of the Civil War and was turning to the issues of the future. 
It was in Kansas among these same strong people later, in 
1890, that the new foreseeing element of Populism arose, 
thriving prodigiously overnight in the fertile soil of political 
independence in the individual, which is and will continue 
to be one of the chief characteristics of this liberty-loving 
State. 

The self-reliance of the early citizenship was general. It 
touched every walk of life. My grandfather, Thomas 
Murdock, was a minister of the gospel and had part in these 
rigorous times. Margaret L. Wood, widow of Sam N. Wood, 
an early Kansan, who was cruelly shot down in one of the 
county-seat wars, wrote me the other day from Boise, 



Address of Mr. Murdock 51 



Idaho. In her letter she instanced the dauntless spirit of 
that people by saying: "Your grandfather Murdock used to 
walk from Emporia to Cottonwood Falls to preach to us. 
One of the coldest Sunday mornings I ever saw, my husband 
came in and said, ' Now get ready to go to church.' I said, 
'The weather is too cold.' He replied, 'That old man has 
walked 20 miles this biting morning to preach to us. The 
wagon will be at the door in 1 5 minutes and all of us must 
go.' The girl whispered to me, 'We will have to go though 
we freeze to death.' We went, and heard a good sermon. 
Your grandfather was like the old-fashioned Methodist 
ministers of Ohio and Kentucky — conscientious, devout, 
brave, and self-denying." 

I knew Gov. Guck in his later years. He had all of the 
qualities which have been ascribed to him by the two gen- 
tlemen who have just spoken. He was old-fashioned in his 
devotion to frugality. He believed in and he practiced 
economy. Tike all strong men, he was strong in his opin- 
ions, firm in his convictions. Like all strong men, he was 
mistaken in some of them. In common with its entire 
citizenship, he rejoiced in the high estate Kansas reached in 
social progress, for he grew to see the State of which he was 
an early governor rise to the highest development that in 
many respects, I think, it is possible for a people to attain. 
He lived to see the day when this vast expanse which he knew 
as a youth as an endless, treeless, virgin prairie had grown 
to a rich Commonwealth, populated by a contented folk in 
the midst of rich fields, churches, schools, with bursting bins 
of plenty, with bank deposits reaching $600 per family, 
with $750 per family in live stock. He lived to see his State, 
consisting of 105 counties, number among them 87 counties 
without any insane, 54 counties without any feeble-minded, 
96 counties without any inebriates, 38 counties without any 
poorhouses, 53 counties without any persons in jail, and 65 
counties without a representative in the State penitentiary. 

He lived to see the State which he entered under the lure 
and invitation of political contest bring to the vision of his 



52 Statue of George Washington Glick 

old age the splendid spectacle of an era of finished devel- 
opment, of rounded citizenship, of peace and permanent 
prosperity. 

As I said in the beginning, and as I shall say in closing, 
nearly all the States having given their quota of statues in 
yonder hall, this custom will soon pass. Available space 
for this statue was found with difficulty in the chamber. 
We are among the last who will so officiate. Let us account 
ourselves fortunate that for a few minutes we may put aside 
the fever and hurly-burly of political strife and, harking 
back to the contests of other days, which time has softened, 
pay tribute, in this presentation to the Nation, to the 
memory of a virile man who lived among virile men in a 
virile generation. [Applause.] 

Mr. Taggart. Mr. Speaker, I am informed that a con- 
current resolution has been adopted by the Senate accepting 
the statue of Gov. Glick, but that it has not yet come over 
from the Senate to the House. 

The Speaker. It can as well be adopted on Monday as 
to-day. The Chair is informed by the Clerk that it has not 
yet come from the Senate. 



MONDAY, JULY 20, 1914 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Carr, one of its clerks, 
announced that the Senate had passed the following resolu- 
tion, in which the concurrence of the House of Representa- 
tives was requested: 

Senate concurrent resolution 28 

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the 
statue of George Washington Glick, presented by the State of Kansas to 
be placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, and 
that the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the contribution of the 
statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished civic 
services. 

Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Kansas. 

Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, Senate concurrent resolu- 
tion of the following title was taken from the Speaker's 
table and referred to its appropriate committee, as indicated 
below : 

S. Con. Res. 28. Concurrent resolution accepting the statue 
of George Washington Guck, presented by the State of 
Kansas, and tendering thanks of Congress therefor; to the 
Committee on the Library. 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Carr, one of its clerks, 
announced that the Senate had passed the following reso- 
lution, in which the concurrence of the House of Represent- 
atives was requested: 

Senate concurrent resolution 30 

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick 16,500 copies, 
of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for the use and distri- 
bution by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of 
Kansas. The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the 
copy prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of 
said statue to accompany the proceedings. 

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54 Statue of George Washington Glick 

Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, Senate resolution of the 
following title was taken from the Speaker's table and 
referred to the appropriate committee, as indicated below: 

Senate concurrent resolution 30 

Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick 16,500 copies, 
of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and distribution 
by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Kansas. 
The Joint Committee on Printing is heieby authorized to have the copy pre- 
pared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said statue 
to accompany the proceedings — 

to the Committee on Printing. 



FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 191 5 

Mr. Ten Byck, from the Committee on the Library, to 
which was referred the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
28) accepting the statue of George Washington Guck, 
presented by the State of Kansas, and tendering thanks of 
Congress therefor, reported the same without amendment, 
accompanied by a report (No. 1337), which said concurrent 
resolution and report were referred to the House Calendar. 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 191 5 

Mr. Taggart. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
the present consideration of Senate concurrent resolution 
28, accepting the statue of George Washington Guck, 
presented by the State of Kansas, and tendering thanks of 
Congress therefor. 

I will state that by an oversight the Senate concurrent 
resolution had not reached the House at the time of the 
ceremonies incidental to receiving the statue which had been 
placed in Statuary Hall. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Kansas asks unani- 
mous consent for the present consideration of the resolution 
which he sends to the Clerk's desk. 



Proceedings in the House 55 



The concurrent resolution was read, as follows: 

Senate concurrent resolution 28 

Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That the 
statue of George Washington Glick, presented by the State of Kansas to be 
placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, and that 
the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the contribution of the statue 
of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished civic 
services. 

Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Kansas. 

The Speaker. Is there objection? 
There was no objection. 
The resolution was agreed to. 

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 191 5 

Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Speaker, I desire to present for imme- 
diate consideration the following privileged report from the 
Committee on Printing, which I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

The Committee on Printing, having had under consideration the Senate 
concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 30) providing for the printing of 16,500 
copies of the proceedings in the Congress upon the acceptance of the statue 
of the late George Washington Glick, accompanied by an engraving of 
said statute, reports the same back to the House with the recommendation 
that the resolution be agreed to. 

The estimated cost will be $4,622.09. 

The unincumbered balance of the allotment for printing and binding for 
Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, is $653,910. 

Mr. Mann. We did not catch what this was for. 

Mr. Tavenner. The printing of the proceedings on the 
Guck statue unveiling in Statuary Hall. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the concurrent reso- 
lution. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Senate concurrent resolution 30 

Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 



56 Statue of George Washington Glick 

acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Guck 16,500 
copies, of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of 
the House of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and 
distribution by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State 
of Kansas. The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have 
the copy prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of 
said statue to accompany the proceedings. 

The concurrent resolution was agreed to. 






